Re: towards 4.4

[Hans-Bernhard B. <HBB...@t-...>]

Benjamin Lindner wrote:

> Well, actually, for a windows GUI application Ctrl+C means "copy to 
> clipboard"

Nowadays --- but wgnuplot is older than that tradition.  Back then 
Ctrl-Insert meant copy.  And it still does, in just about any 
application, including wgnuplot.

And wgnuplot is a GUI application only by necessity, not by choice. 
It's a console application forced into a GUI corset because that was the 
only way to create a Windows application at all, back in the day (we're 
talking about 16-bit Windows here).

> Coming from the windows world I find it more confusing if an application
> does not follow these "standards".

Well, something's gotta give.  A massively portable program like gnuplot 
can't follow each and every platform's conventions completely.

In the long time wgnuplot.exe has been around, the "standard" on MS 
Windows has changed several times over --- roughly every two years, when 
either a new version of Windows or Office hits the streets.  In the same 
time, wgnuplot barely changed at all.  That's both a strength and a 
weakness.  It means it still looks and feels the same to people 
accustomed to it from way back when, but it also means that it'll 
alienate newcomers to some extent.